Women's writings in the Philippines are metaphorizations of the body
and self of woman as performative subversions of patriarchal
domination. Once pledged to a life of obedience to the demands of
patriarchal upbringing to become what Trinh Minh-ha called the “made-
woman”, women writers in the Philippines now choose to transgress
representations of themselves in the canons of Filipino literature
written by male authors by turning to their lived experience as an
alternative mode of radical subjectivity. First, they discover the
language they use need not be institutionalized language. Second,
they re-define the old myths to distinguish between situated and
universal language. And, third, they revolt from Hymen or against
being an object of man's desire.

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